Diplomacy and serendipity combine to help drum-up votes for Ireland's election to the UN Security Council... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Travelling Light - January 2000, by Joe Hayes above.
On 3 January 2000, three days into the new millennium, early on a cold Monday morning I left Dublin Airport for Auckland and onwards to Tonga and Nauru.
My odyssey was part of a global canvassing campaign directed by the Department of Foreign Affairs, to secure Ireland's election to the UN Security Council in 2001...
Listen to more from Sunday Miscellany here.
